THE DISTANT ECHO
Book ID/图书代码： 05430004B04415
English Summary/英文概要： Four in the morning, mid-December, and snow is smothering St Andrews. Student Alex Gilbey and his three best friends are staggering home from a pasty when they stumble upon the body of a young woman. Rosie Duff has been raped, stabbed and left for dead in an ancient Pictish cemetery. And the only suspects are four young students stained with her blood.
Twenty-five years later, Fife police mount a cold case review. Among the unsolved murders they’re examining is that of Rosie Duff. But someone else has their own idea of how justice should be done. One of the original quartet dies in a suspicious house fire. Soon after, a second is killed in what looks like a burglary gone sour. But Alex fears the worst. Someone is taking revenge for Rosie Duff. He has to find out who it is before he becomes the next victim. And it might just save his life if he can uncover who really killed Rosie all those years ago.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 十二月中旬的某个凌晨，大雪把St Andrews包裹的密不透气。Alex Gilbey和他的三个好朋友刚刚从派对上回来，踉跄地回家了，在回家的路上他们无意中发现了一具尸体。Rosie Duff被奸杀了，死在了一间古老的墓地里。唯一的嫌疑犯就是这四个身上沾满鲜血的年轻学生。 二十五年之后，Fife的警察们又重新翻案了。在众多未解的疑难谋杀案中，Rosie Duff就是其中之一。但是有别人对该如何执法有他们自己的意见。四个原来的嫌疑犯中有一个莫名其妙的死于家中的火灾。不久之后，又一个人在在看似入室抢劫的案子中死了，Alex担心还有更可怕的事会发生。有人可能会Rosie Duff报仇。Alex必须在下一个受害者出现之前把这个人找出来。要是他能找出究竟是谁杀了Rosie的话，他就可以保住自己的命了。
1978苏格兰的St Andrews
十二月末的凌晨四点。四个模糊的轮廓在阵阵雪花中摇摆，雪花任由劈劈啪啪地刮过北海的乌拉尔河刮来的东北风的吹打。自封为Laddies fi’Kirkcaldy的八只踉踉跄跄的脚沿着他们熟悉的捷径越过Hallow Hill来到Fife Park，这可是St Andrews大学最现代化的学校公寓，宿舍里那一张张永远没有整理的床懒洋洋地向你表示欢迎，一条条懒散的床单和毯子一直拖到地板上。
一路上谈话沿着他们熟悉的话题断断续续。“我告诉你，Bowie是国王，”Sigmund Malkiewicz含糊不清地大声说，平时毫无表情的面孔随着酒精的作用而渐渐舒展开了。离他几步之远是Alex Gilbey，他把斗篷的风帽往脸夹处拉，心理暗自偷笑，悄悄地说出他知道的答案。
Awards/获奖情况： In 1995, she won the Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year.
Her most recent novel, A PLACE OF EXECUTION, won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel, and named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
About the Author/作者介绍： Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining community then read English at Oxford. She was a journalist for sixteen years, spending the last three as Northern Bureau Chief of a national Sunday tabloid. She is now a full-time writer and lives in South Manchester. Val McDERMID在苏格兰某个煤矿区长大，随后到牛津学习英语。她担任记者工作有16年之久，目前住在曼彻斯特南部从事全职写作。1995年，作者获取年度最佳犯罪小说金匕首奖。作者最新小说A Place of Execution获得《洛杉矶时报》图书奖，埃德加最佳小说提名奖，并被列入《纽约时报》最受关注图书之一。
作者个人网页：http://www.valmcdermid.com/index.html
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